[PLUG] SciLab, Octave and friends

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Douglas Howard wrote:

> I'll recommend SciLab having used it a little.
> It's aimed at Matlab users, which is popular in university engineering
> and physics courses. There are also Matlab to SciLab conversion utilities.
> SciLab is maintained actively, has good documentation and has few bugs.

  Thank you very much, Douglas. I'll researh them all. This past weekend I
learned from the folks on the octave-help mail list (most of whom do very
sophisticated math) how to calculate the principal engenvalue and associated
eigenvector in a 4-line octave program. It does require intimate familiarity
with the language to understand how to structure the code to arrive at the
desired results.

Rich

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